witling
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If we reckon from the amœba, the witling seems scarcely distinguishable from the wit; but if we reckon from the average of humanity, they start asunder like the poles.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
Show me a perfectly happy man, and I will show you an ignorant witling, light-headed, hardhearted, and of a most powerfully good digestion!
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb: Sir Strut, for so the witling throng Oft called him when at school, And hitch'd him up in many a song To sport and ridicule.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
"Away with scythe and sickle," shouted the witling; "it's many a day since the fields of Wish-Ton-Wish have been trodden down by horsemen in buff jerkins, or ambushed by creeping Wampanoags."
From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper
He had no superstitions, but the unaccountable flight of the witling, and the eerie tales offered in explanation and the mystic night of storm in that wild forest waste unstrung him.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
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